SOLD FOR $30,000

Pair of Sailor Scrimshaw Polychrome Sperm Whale Teeth, 19th century, engraved with a French and a British frigate, respectively, each beneath a crescent moon and three mariner’s stars, on rosewood stands.
Length 4 ½ in. and 4 ¼ in.

Provenance:
Paul Madden, Sandwich, Massachusetts
Barbara Johnson (Vol. IV, lot 106, 16 Dec. 1983)
Purported found on Martha’s Vineyard

The Carol and Stephen Memishian
19th C. Scrimshaw Collection

Exhibited:
Smithsonian Institution
U.S. Capitol Building